5 trang kế tiếp này mới lòi ra 4 năm học luật của Ngu Kỷ. Anh Peter nhớ dịch nhé 1 definitively when we answer, say yes or no; try to 2 avoid nodding your head or shaking your head or saying 3 uh-huh, or huh-uh, so that we can tell easily in the 4 record what it is youre answering. 10:41:24 5 Do you understand? 10:41:28 6 A Yes. 10:41:28 7 Q Okay. Can you tell me how old you are? 10:41:43 8 A 55 -- 55. 10:41:44 9 Q Whats your birth date? 10:41:49 10 A August 20th, 1953. 10:41:54 11 Q And what city were you born in? 10:42:01 12 A Quang Nam. 10:42:01 13 Q What part of the country is that in? 10:42:15 14 A Central region. 10:42:16 15 Q Okay. Are you north or south of the Mekong 16 River? 10:42:25 17 A South. 10:42:26 18 Q Okay. Would it be in the area called the 19 Central Highlands? 10:42:41 20 A Just central region. 10:42:43 21 Q Okay. All right. 10:42:52 22 And where did you attend school? 10:43:02 23 A Tam Ky. 10:43:03 24 Q And where is that located? 10:43:17 25 A Tam Ky. 6 10:43:18 1 Q In the town of Tam Ky? 10:43:22 2 A Yes. 10:43:23 3 Q And is that close by Quang Nam? 10:43:30 4 A Its in the provence of Quang Nam. 10:43:31 5 Q Okay. Is Tam Ky the name of the town that you 6 were born in? 10:43:46 7 A Yes. 10:43:46 8 Q Okay. And how long did you live in Tam Ky? 10:43:49 9 A 18 years. 10:44:00 10 Q Can you tell me when the general population is 11 in the town of Tam Ky? 10:44:10 12 A I dont know. 10:44:12 13 Q Okay. At the time you were growing up, do you 14 know approximately what the population was? 10:44:24 15 A I didnt pay attention. 10:44:26 16 Q Okay. All right. Did you graduate high school 17 at Tam Ky? 10:44:38 18 A No. 10:44:39 19 Q Okay. Did you move when you were 18 before you 20 graduated high school? 10:44:50 21 A Yes. 10:44:51 22 Q And where did you move to? 10:44:54 23 A Saigon. 10:44:58 24 Q Add did you continue with your education in 25 Saigon? 7 10:45:04 1 A Yes. 10:45:05 2 Q Tell me what education you continued within 3 Saigon? 10:45:15 4 A I went to Saigon Law College. 10:45:18 5 Q All right. Would your move to Saigon be 6 approximately 1971? 10:45:40 7 A 70, 71. 10:45:42 8 Q Okay. I know from reading your interrogatory 9 responses that your time at Saigon Law College was 72 to 10 75; is that right? 10:46:09 11 A 70, 71 to 71 to 75, Im not sure, yeah. I 12 think -- 71, 72, 74, 75 -- yeah, I finished the 13 fourth year in 75. 10:46:37 14 Q The fourth year of the Saigon Law College? 10:46:42 15 A Yes. 10:46:44 16 Q Okay. Did you begin at the Saigon Law College 17 as soon as you got to Saigon? 10:46:53 18 A Yes. 10:46:54 19 Q All right. Is the curriculum at the Saigon Law 20 College an undergraduate combination curriculum? Meaning 21 its like college and law school together? 10:47:30 22 A I went to a law university, not college. 10:47:35 23 Q Okay. 10:47:38 24 A Four years I got a bachelor. 10:47:39 25 Q All right. So in 1975 you graduated? 8 10:47:54 1 A I finished. Right after I finished my fourth 2 year, I left. 10:47:55 3 Q All right. And what was the month in 1975 when 4 you completed your studies at the Saigon Law College? 10:48:04 5 A April 75. 10:48:13 6 Q Was that the normal end of a semester or did 7 things end early that year? 10:48:31 8 A Approximately. 10:48:34 9 Q That was approximately the normal time for the 10 semester to be over? 10:48:42 11 A Yes. 10:48:43 12 Q All right. So your degree, then, was earned as 13 of April of 75? 10:48:58 14 A No. I just finished my studies, I did not take 15 the exam. And then I left for the U.S. 10:49:04 16 Q Okay. Were you awarded a bachelors degree? 10:49:12 17 A No. 10:49:12 18 Q And thats because you didnt finish the final 19 exam? 10:49:18 20 A Correct. 10:49:19 21 Q Okay. Did you work anywhere while you were in 22 school in Saigon? 10:49:27 23 A No. 10:49:29 24 Q How did you support yourself through law school? 10:49:36 25 A My family. 9 10:49:44 1 Q And back in Tam Ky, what business or activities 2 was your family engaged in, back in the 50s and 60s? 10:49:51 3 A Business. 10:50:04 4 Q Okay. Any particular kind of business? 10:50:07 5 A Like everything, food, construction. 10:50:31 6 Q Okay. Do you have any brothers and sisters? 10:50:37 7 A Yes. 10:50:37 8 Q How many? 10:50:47 9 A Total of five right now. 10:50:50 10 Q Theres five of you -- five siblings alive now? 10:50:57 11 A Yes. 10:51:00 12 Q Including yourself? 10:51:00 13 A Yes. 10:51:06 14 Q Were there more who are no longer alive? 10:51:14 15 A Correct. 10:51:16 16 Q Could you tell me about those, please? 10:51:24 17 A Four people died. 10:51:26 18 Four siblings? 10:51:30 19 A Yes. 10:51:31 20 Q So are there nine children all together at the 21 beginning? 10:51:36 22 A Yes. 10:51:38 23 Q Are any of the deaths of the four would have 24 died war related? 10:51:57 25 A Some died in -- in -- when they were very young, 10
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